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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000949b.htm person Burrell Henry James AACR2 19 January 1873 29 July 1945 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Naturalist Henry Burrell was a grazier who devoted much of his time to the study of the platypus and with A.S. Le Souef he published "The Wild Animals of Australasia" (1926). Burrell wrote widely on natural history subjects and was an active collector of specimens.

Born Sydney, 19 January 1873. Died Sydney, 29 July 1945. OBE 1937. Some years as a comedian on the vaudeville stage; grazier, Manilla, New South Wales; established a small zoological garden with native fauna; studied the platypus and echidna and succeeded in keeping them alive in captivity; first person to exhibit platypuses both within and outside Australia; published "The Platypus; its discovery, zoological position form and characteristics, habits, life history, etc" (1927); moved to Sydney 1927. Much of his collecting was carried out for the University of Sydney and the commonwealth government, but he donated his excellent collection of photographic negatives to the Australian Museum, Sydney, and his unique complete sequence of monotreme exhibits to the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra.

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Donated his monotreme exhibits to the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra

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 'Burrell, Henry James', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Burrell, Henry James Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Burrell, Henry James (1873-1945), naturalist Walsh, G. P. Burrell, Henry James (1873-1945), naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 492-493 Newspaper Article: Honours List [Coronation Awards - National] Honours List [Coronation Awards - National] 1937 Sydney Morning Herald 12 Harrison, Lancelot manuscript Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Harrison, Lancelot manuscript Original manuscript of Natural History of the Platypus by L. Harrison and H. Burrell Henry James Burrell - Records Australian Museum Henry James Burrell - Records Series 143 1910 - 1945 Correspondence 1935-36 including letters to C. Anderson regarding a platypus expedition and the article 'Do Australian mammals hibernate?''. A collection of photographic negatives [reference copies, Series 143, original negatives with the Photographic Department]. 0.13 m Photographs Henry James Burrell - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Henry James Burrell - Records ML MSS 874 1935 - 1936 Carbon typescript copies of papers on the platypus January 1935 - February 1936 supplementary to his book "The platypus; its discovery, zoological position, form and characteristics, habits, life history etc." (Sydney, 1927), the originals were held in the Burrell collection, Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra but were transferred to the Museum of Australia [1 volume, ML MSS 874]. 1 volume